Telemedicine- Digital Revolution in Healthcare through Virtual Interconnection: A Review

• Dr.Nehadur Rahman Mallick,  
• Sharbari Dutta,*  
• Dr. Palla Gayatri

Abstract

Advances in technology have created quality network services, allowing individuals to get better health care, and making it cheaper and more accessible to more and more people. Telemedicine can be described as the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical services to people who are far from the provider. The most important aspect being people and their intent to use technology, their orientation, motivation, and training. The telephone lines were being used to transfer medical data in lesser time previously. Radios have been used to order medical supplies. With the advancement of the technology and internet today telemedicine has expanded its scope and relies on phones, computers, gadgets etc thus, resulting in a faster, and more efficient, and accessible healthcare delivery system.

Keywords

Telesurgery, Tele-Psychiatry. Tele-Health, Tele dentistry, Tele-Radiology, IoT, eHealth, mHealth